Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

- Amma Asante

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the c…

- Amma Asante

The key quality all successful people share is the ability to inspire, to transfer our passion to other people and to bring them along with us in pur…

- Amma Asante

I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create in a movie like the one I did…

- Amma Asante

Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly …

- Amma Asante

What is right can never be impossible.

- Amma Asante

When I look in the mirror I see the woman I knew I wanted to be as a child. When I was a young girl, I had a vision of the woman I wanted to be. And …

- Amma Asante

I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it has impacted me because I …

- Amma Asante

What I wanted to do was put a woman of color, front and center, in my movie combining a lot of themes that were relevant to both men and women. I act…

- Amma Asante